GLOBAL GAME AWARDS

Best Digital Sales Platform

Best Gaming Hardware Manufacturer

Best Gaming Keyboard

Best Graphics Hardware

Best Handheld Gaming Phone

Best Post-Launch Support

Most Anticipated Game

Most Anticipated Hardware

Best Post-Launch Support

Long gone are the days when games were just released. Left to gather dust on store shelves or disappear forever into obscurity. Developers are now keen to play the long game, providing satisfying gaming experiences that can last fans years rather than mere hours. These games are continually updated with new maps, modes and features, existing in a constant state of flux that can keep players hooked, week after week.

Fortnite: Chapter 2

Final Fantasy XIV: Shadowbringers

Total War: Three Kingdoms

Two Point Hospital

Best Sim

As gaming continues to knock on the door of reality we are treated to a steady stream of titles that enable almost realistic gameplay across a variety of real world arenas. Up for this category we could find flight simulators facing off against racing simulators against tank simulators. Gaming allows us to explore passions and pursue very real hobbies and this award category represents the best real world simulations that gaming has to offer. Perfecting these simulations means painstaking research and a meticulous eye for detail by the developers as they rebuild our passions and hobbies for us.

F1 2019

Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown

Farming Simulator 19 - Platinum Edition

American Truck Simulator - Washington

Best MOBA

The Multiplayer Online Arena Battle is a highly competitive game genre that has really come into its own over the past five years. Although some classic MOBA titles spearheaded this new frontier of competitive gaming it’s only in recent times that the entire world at some point or another is likely to have encountered this merciless game category. This award is reserved for MOBA titles that are not just brand new but continuing to evolve or managing to maintain the attention of the masses. With the classics still being played as much today as they ever were, if they are good enough then they still have a right to command the prestigious nominee slot. Fast paced, unforgiving, and complex to master, these are all traits attached to these incredible games and only the best reach the nominee status.

League of Legends

Dota 2

Heroes of the Storm

Smite

Best RPG

Roll your D20s it’s time for the RPG game of the year award. It all sounds so simple but behind the doors these games represent some of the more complex mechanics and plots around, giving us some of the most expansive and varied gaming environments we’ve ever seen. Role-playing is all about immersion, and these games represent some of the deepest, most engrossing experiences available, often involving the player in some of the most grandiose tales of pure fantasy. The roleplaying game mechanic has been with us since the RPG Lord, Gary Gygax, first thought of pen & paper tabletop games with your buddies, and since then leveling up and character development has found its way into a huge proportion of video games.

Best Story

Throw away Dickens. Set alight your copy of Tolstoy. Wuthering Heights meet paper shredder. You have no need for these intellectual curios with gaming’s huge advances in storytelling and character development. These are the cream of the crop, the Booker prize for our new interactive age. All of the nominees give us a riveting yarn that had us hooked from the very first page screen, with stories that will live long in our memory. Intriguing plot devices, exceptional character dialogue, twists and turns that all come together to deliver a real contender for the Best Story Award.

A Plague Tale: Innocence

Control

Final Fantasy XIV: Shadowbringers

Disco Elysium